One thing we have done succesfully in the past is to automatically send stack traces to our development team. That way we can keep tabs on which stack traces are the most common, which have already been fixed, etc. I'm not sure this would work for a normal commercial application, but you might be able to get away with it for the eap version.
Eugene Belyaev wrote: > Alain, > > Actually, the "secret handshake" does not use the Internet at all. The > license check datagram is multicasted over the local network not the > internet. It's also most likely protected by firewalls and does not even > try to report anything to us too. > > We are currently working on a number of web services that will be exposed to > a set of tools at the coming ITN (IntelliJ Technology Network). ITN is a > support web site which will host EAP as well. > The services include various notifications, bug and feature tracker, user > collaboration network and other things. They will also be provided as > plugins for the IDE so you will be able to get instant notifications when > something like a new build happens. > > /Eugene Belyaev > > "Alain Ravet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Eugene, > > > > > Alain, > > > Could you explain what do you mean here? > > > > The "secret handshake" between IDEA and your license check server, could > > be used to push important info to the user: > > - "new version available" > > - "50$ personal license for Christmas" > > - "doc updated .." > > - "new plug-in available .." > > ... > > > > and not only the "don't terminate yourself" signal. > > > > A Web-update feature would be nice. > > > > > > Alain Ravet > > _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
